Susanne Helmes (SusaHee)
Susanne Helmes is an ethnologist and art historian, M.A. and has been working as a performer, choreographer and dancer since the 1980s. Based in Cologne, she presents her solo and group performances internationally, focussing on Spain and Asia. She studied classical pantomime in Paris and Cologne and has travelled Europe as a street mime. She developed her knowledge of performative art in New York City with the dance and performance scene of the 1980/90s in co-operation with Time and Space Limited (Linda Mussmann), Merce Cunningham and John Cage, among others. She is part of various collectives, including the Performance Art Lab PAE, Cologne and PML Kollektiv, Cologne, and organises the Flipbook project in Spain on her own initiative. From 2002-2014, she initiated and directed the children’s dance theatre Azul.
In 2018, she was invited by the Mongolian Choreographers Federation to Ulaanbataar, Mongolia, with a focus on combining traditional dance forms with contemporary dance and theatre.
Since 2017, performances have been created in Cologne in collaboration with refugees from war zones and professional dancers and musicians. This format will be continued. She is currently travelling with solo works and group participations and is preparing a 360-degree film installation.
Performer with Britta Lieberknecht in the
- Performance Kollektiv PML